The Perfect Crime

Purchase and intentionally age soft drinks before giving them to someone. The drinks will retain their bubble and taste, all the while becoming cerebrally carcinogenic dietary saboteurs.

According to Wikipedia, “[R]esearchers found that 6 months after aspartame was put into carbonated beverages, 25% of the aspartame had been converted to DKP.”¹ If this is true, few know that diet soft drinks containing aspertame become toxic after 6 months. Aspartylphenylalanine diketopiperazine as a product of aspartame according to some researchers will produce in the stomach another chemical that causes brain cancer.²³ In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, Gary W. Flamm states that the studies done on rats indicating an increased rate of brain tumor used doses hundreds of times what a normal human would ingest,⁴ but a human that drinks diet soft drinks on a daily basis will ingest that extreme amount in a lifetime.

According to Wikipedia, very few studies have been done on aspartylphenylalanine diketopiperazine’s effect on humans, so the results are still open. It may be possible to poison someone over a long period of time with just diet pepsi.

1. Wing Sum Tsang, Margaret A. Clarke, and Frederick W. Parrish (1985). “Determination of aspartame and its breakdown products in soft drinks by reverse-phase chromatography with UV detection”. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 33: 734–738. doi:10.1021/jf00064a043. [↩]
2. Olney JW, Farber NB, Spitznagel E, Robins LN (November 1996). “Increasing brain tumor rates: is there a link to aspartame?”. J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol. 55 (11): 1115–23. doi:10.1097/00005072-199611000-00002. PMID 8939194. [↩]
3. Shephard SE, Wakabayashi K, Nagao M (May 1993). “Mutagenic activity of peptides and the artificial sweetener aspartame after nitrosation”. Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association 31 (5): 323–9. PMID 8505016. [↩]
4. “Letter to the Editor”, by Gary W. Flamm, published in the Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, 1997. [HTML] [↩]